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This article appears courtesy of Emma Goldman Papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
Address to the International Working Men's Association Congress
by Emma Goldman
Life imposes strange situations on all of us. For forty-eight years I was considered an extremist in our ranks. One who refused to compromise our ideas or tactics for any purpose whatsoever--one who always insisted that the Anarchist aim and methods must harmonize, or the aim would never be achieved. Yet here I am trying to explain the action of our Spanish comrades to the European opponents, and the criticism of the latter to the comrades of the CNT-FAI. In other words, after a lifetime of an ext... (From : Anarchy Archives.)

Address to the Jury in U.S. v. Emma Goldman and Alexander BerkmanEmma Goldman, 1917
Gentlemen of the Jury:
As in the case of my codefendant, Alexander Berkman, this is also the first time in my life I have ever addressed a jury. I once had occasion to speak to three judges.
On the day after our arrest it was given out by the U.S. Marshal and the District Attorney's office that the "big fish" of the No Conscription activities had been caught, and that there would be no more trouble-makers and disturbers to interfere with the highly democratic effort of the Government to conscript its young manhood for the European slaughter. What a pity that the faithful servants of the Government, personified in the U.S. Marshal and the District Attor... (From : WikiSource.)

Freedom: March 1893, p14
Advice to Those About to Emigrate
In these days when Home Colonization is seriously discussed, and is even tried, in England as an outlet for the populations of our congested towns, the following letters will be of much interest to our readers. A comrade in New South Wales, writing to Kropotkin for suggestions and advice, says:
"As you are probably aware, the Labor movement in Australia has advanced tremendously during the last four or five years. The reason, I believe, lies in the increased agitation in the minds of the people through the late strikes here and also in England and America. The Labor Party here got the worst of it in the last three big strikes, yet the importance of those strikes as factors... (From : Anarchy Archives.)

Introduction by Noam Chomsky

"Notes on Anarchism" in For Reasons of State
Noam Chomsky, 1970

Transcribed by rael@ll.mit.edu (Bill Lear)

A French writer, sympathetic to anarchism, wrote in the 1890s that "anarchism has a broad back, like paper it endures anything"---including, he noted those whose acts are such that "a mortal enemy of anarchism could not have done better."[1] There have been many styles of thought and action that have been referred to as "anarchist." It would be hopeless to try to encompass all of these conflicting tendencies in some general theory or ideology. And even if we proceed to extract from the history of libertarian thought a living, evolving tradition, as Daniel Guérin does in Anarchism, it remains difficult to formulate its doctrines as a specific and determinate theory of society and social change. The anarchist historian Rudolph Rocker, who presents a systematic conception of the development of anarchist th...

Anarchism versus Socialism By WM. C. Owen. London: Freedom Press, 1922.
Anarchism versus Socialism
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A FOREWORD
"Anarchy versus Socialism," which FREEDOM now reissues, after it has run through its columns (1921-22), was published first some eighteen years ago. Emma Goldman was then one of the most popular lecturers in the United States, and, being questioned constantly as to the difference between the Anarchist and Socialist philosophies, felt the need of a treatise that would explain that difference. At her suggestion I undertook the task.
The title showed my conviction that between these two philosophies of life no honest alliance is possible. I considered then that both s... (From : Anarchy Archives.)

AN ANARCHIST COMMUNITY.
(From a Correspondent.)
So strong and so widespread are the pretensions of "governments" to-day, that it is difficult for any civilized community to remain anarchistic without being interfered with or "annexed" by one or the other of them. it is therefore interesting to discover from the 'Colonial Office List' (Harrison & Sons) that the British empire includes at least one successful anarchist commune. Judging train the following account it is in no need of the so-called indispensable "laws" of majority rule. We hope it may be long before busybody philanthropy imposes any such chains upon it.
"Tristan d'Acunha and Gough Island are the principal of a group of islands lying in la... (From : AnarchyArchives.)

Anarchists, Bolsheviks, and Serge
From Daniel Guerin's _Anarchism_ (Monthly Review Press) (reprinted with permission):
During the revolutionary days that brought Kerensky's bourgeois republic to an end, the anarchists were in the forefront of the military struggle, especially in the Dvinsk regiment commanded by old libertarians like Grachoff and Fedotoff. This force dislodged the counter-revolutionary "cadets." Aided by his detachment, the anarchist Gelezniakov disbanded the Constituent Assembly: the Bolsheviks only ratified the accomplished fact. Many partizan detachments were formed or led by anarchists... and fouch unremittingly against the white armies between 1918 and 1920.
Scarcely a major city was without an anarchist or a... (From : Spunk.org.)

Anarchists in Israel, by Sam Dolgoff
Note: This article, from the book "Fragments: a memoir",
by Sam Dolgoff (Refract Publications, 1986) recounts a trip
to Israel by Sam and his wife Esther, to meet the anarchists
there.
In the mid-1970s Esther and I embarked on a two-week
tour of Israel, not merely to see the sights, but to contact our
anarchist comrades publishing their organ Problemen. We also
wanted to contact Israeli settlers whom we already knew at
home. We felt that the trip was all the more necessary because
altogether too many comrades did not even know that there
were a few anarchist groups in Israel, much less an anarchist
publication there.
We immediately contacted the editor of Problemen, Joseph
Ludin, a... (From : Flag.Blackened.net.)

Edited with introductions by Edwin D. Mead.
Published for the International Union by Ginn &
Company, Boston.
BETHINK YOURSELVES!
BY LEO TOLSTOI
PUBLISHED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL UNION
GINN & COMPANY, BOSTON
1904
Reprinted from the London Times
Translated by V. Tchertkoff, Editor of the Free Age Press,
and I. F. M.
“BETHINK YOURSELVES!”
“This is your hour, and the power of darkness.”—Luke xxii. 53.
I
Again war. Again sufferings, necessary to nobody,
utterly uncalled for; again fraud; again the universal
stupefaction and brutalization of men.
Men who are separated from each other by thousands
of miles, hundreds of thousands of such men (on the
one hand—Buddhists... (From : Gutenberg.org.)

Anarchism is grounded in a rather definite proposition: that valuable behavior occurs only by the free and direct response of individuals or voluntary groups to the conditions presented by the historical environment. It claims that in most human affairs, whether political, economic, military, religious, moral, pedagogic, or cultural, more harm than good results from coercion, top-down direction, central authority, bureaucracy, jails, conscription, states, pre-ordained standardization, excessive planning, etc.
Anarchists want to increase intrinsic functioning and diminish extrinsic power. This is a social-psychological hypothesis with obvious political implications. Depending on varying historical conditions that present various threats... (From : The Stan Iverson Memorial Library, Infoshop & Arch....)